Corporate Responsibility

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados promotes its economic sustainability based on a fundamental bedrock of ethical and humanistic values. We are confident that this approach will ensure that our collaborators are responsible and fulfilled, while contributing towards a positive business environment and the betterment of the community within which we operate.

The firm endeavours to allow collaborators to fulfil their individual altruistic aspirations according to their own sense of social responsibility. By encouraging this sense of responsibility, we are also meeting our strategic priorities; promoting cohesion and a sense of belonging, the reinforcement of participation values, justice, transparency and solidarity, good management of talent, the motivation and personal development of our collaborators, and recognition from the community of our status as a socially responsible company.

The firm aims to be synchronised with the business world by satisfying, in this area as in others, the expectations of clients and of the community in general.

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados is certified as a Family Responsible Organization, which acknowledges the effort made towards a healthy and respectful work environment.

We were the first certified law firm certified as such in Portugal, after having structured existing measures and policies into a thoughtful and careful strategy for conciliation. The certification followed the evaluation of this coherent plan, that aimed at strengthening the alliance between work and family spheres, and at committing for the future with new measures to promote this stability. 

At Morais Leitão, the balance between work life and personal time is an ongoing concern, featured in an ambitious plan of measures that takes in account quality of time, flexibility, family support, personal and professional development, equality of opportunity as well as leadership and management.

At Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados commitment to the environment and sustainable development is inseparable from our ambition to provide more efficient services to our clients.

Starting 2020, Morais Leitão renoved its adhesion to the Punctual Payment Commitment to suppliers, a project of ACEGE, IAPMEI, CIP and APIFARMA. Thus, we are an active part of this social responsibility movement, by promoting a culture of punctual payment and the competitiveness of the Portuguese economy.